Italian President Sergio Mattarella
said the situation of Italian jails should attract more
attention and is "unseemly for a civilized country" like Italy.
"It's enough to remember the dozens of suicides, in just over
six months", recorded this year, the president noted, addressing
the Parliamentary Press Association during the traditional 'fan'
ceremony before summer recess.
The president spoke about a letter he has received from inmates
detained in Brescia, saying their "description is harrowing".
Living conditions in prison are "anguishing in the eyes of
anyone who has sensibility and a conscience - indecorous for a
civilized country as is, and should be, Italy.
"Prison cannot be a place where all hope is lost, it cannot be
transformed into a criminal gym", concluded the president.
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